Mondo Times Money Poll Archive

This poll ran from October 20 to 26, 2008.

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"It\'s a good thing President Bush is in charge." True 604/38% False 972/62%

Votes: 1576

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, from the article "In Final Months in Office, Bush Is Burdened but Still Confident," published in the October 10, 2008 edition of The New York Times. Stolberg was referring to President George W. Bush's view that the United States is fortunate that he is president during the worldwide financial crisis now unfolding.

Stolberg wrote: "George W. Bush began his presidency with the worst terrorist attack on American soil and he is ending it with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In between, he confronted a hurricane that nearly wiped New Orleans off the map as his administration showed ineptitude in its response.

"Now, as he spends his last months in office trying to avert a global economic collapse, Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it's a good thing he's in charge.

"He said that if it was going to happen at all, he was glad it was happening under his presidency, because he had a good group of people in D.C. working for him," Dru Van Steenberg, one of several small-business owners who met with Mr. Bush in San Antonio earlier this week. The president expressed the same sentiment, others said, during a similar private session in Chantilly, Va., the next day."

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